Leva Province

LEVA ADDELENE PROVINCE
LEVA PROVINCE OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT CALEDONIA, MISSOURI ON JUNE 8, 1909. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE HERBERT AND HATTY(BUXTON) PROVINCE. LEVA DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HER HOME IN IRONDALE, MISSOURI ON MAY 7, 2002 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF NINETY-TWO YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND TWENTY-NINE DAYS.
LEVA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOSEPH PROVINCE ON JANUARY 21, 1924 IN IRONDALE, MISSOURI. TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN.
LEVA IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, VERNON PROVINCE OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI, ONE DAUGHTER, LOUISE WILLIAMS AND HUSBAND CHESTER OF BARNHART, MISSOURI, ONE SISTER, MAGGIE PROVINCE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY-SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND TWENTY-NINE GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, ELIZABETH PROVINCE OF SPARTA, ILLINOIS, SON-IN-LAW, BOB NIXON OF HOPEWELL, MISSOURI AND MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND HUSBAND SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, CECIL PROVINCE, ONE DAUGHTER, ALMA JEAN NIXON, FIVE SISTERS, CLARA PROVINCE, ODA HEDGCOTH, MAZZIE BRILEY, DAISY FORSHEE AND RUTH BLOUNT, THREE BROTHERS, JOHN BECK, EVERETT BECK AND MAHLON BECK AND ONE GRANDSON, GARY WAYNE SMITH, SR. AND ONE INFANT GRANDSON, CARY GENE SMITH.
LEVA WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE IRONDALE NAZARENE CHURCH AND SERVED AS A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND AS THE TREASURER.
LEVA HAD MANY ENJOYMENTS IN HER LIFE, SOME OF THEM INCLUDED VEGETABLE AND FLOWER GARDENING, FEEDING THE BIRDS AND SEWING. SHE ALSO ENJOYED FISHING AND HAVING COMPANY.
LEVA ENJOYED TRAVELING SO SHE COULD LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL FALL COLORS OF MOTHER NATURE.
LEVA HAD A KIND AND LOVING HEART TOWARD ALL WHO KNEW HER. LEVA'S GENEROSITY EXTENDED TO MANY, THROUGH HER LOVING CARE FOR ANYONE IN NEED. SHE TRULY LEFT THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL.
VISITATION WAS HELD FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2002 FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AND SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2002 FROM 11:00 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI, MISSOURI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2002 AT 1:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH PASTOR TAMI WILSON OFFICIATING. MUSICAL SELECTIONS SANG WERE AMAZING GRACE AND HOW GREAT THOU ART PERFORMED BY GRANDSON TIMOTHY WILLIAMS. SERVING AS PALL BEARERS WERE TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, GARY WAYNE SMITH, JR., SHANE NIXON, BRANDON NIXON, MICHAEL NIXON, JEFF WHALEY, FRANK PROVINCE, RUSS MATHIS AND MICHAEL HICKMAN. BURIAL WAS IN THE HOPEWELL CEMETERY, HOPEWELL, MISSOURI UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI, MISSOURI.